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impact and Comparing and contrasting related readings: Exploring likenesses and differences between texts to
understand them better.
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From the process which is done by the researcher, the treatments were done effectively. It
is because the treatments are suitable with the critical reading strategies.
From the processes which had been done by the researcher, the researcher felt satisfied. That feeling is
because, based on the processes which also crosschecked with lesson plan, it is also appropriate with critical reading
strategies procedure theory. Other reason also came from
the students’ good respond and students’ scores after the treatment.
2. Critical Reading Strategies as a Treatment of Students’
Critical Thinking Improvement
In this point, the researcher involves theory about critical reading strategies as a treatment of students’
critical thinking improvement into the result of before and after critical reading strategies application Questionnaire
and Pre,Post-test. It is also for discussing research question number two which tries to signify
students’ critical thinking ability before and after treatment of
critical reading strategies. Here is the involvement between the result of questionnaire and pre,post-test and critical
reading strategies as a treatment of students’ critical thinking improvement theory.
Critical reading strategies in this study are 7 steps which are used by the researcher as a treatment to measure
its effectiveness on students’ critical thinking.
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While, Students’ critical thinking is the upper three levels of
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Samuel W – Marllyn C.Salisbury, Critical Reading strategies. Universitas Academics
http:www.salisbury.educounselingnew7critical_reading_strategies.html , accessed on
November 29
th
, 2016
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Samuel W – Marllyn C.Salisbury, Critical Reading strategies. Universitas Academics
http:www.salisbury.educounselingnew7critical_reading_strategies.html , accessed on
November 29
th
, 2016
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Blooms’ taxonomy of educational objectives analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
That brain’s activity also known as questioning, analyzing and criticizing included in
critical thinking aspects used in this study.
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In this study, the researcher examined students’ critical thinking ability
by using critical reading strategies. The effects of students’ critical thinking ability
themselves, according to Ennis are the text itself and how common the reader reads a text.
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Although there are many other effects which can increase students’ critical thinking,
but critical reading strategies become significant strategies which effect students’ critical thinking. the prove is that in
this study, critical reading strategies give 84 of students improvement of their critical thinking ability.
Here is frequency distribution of students’ critical thinking ability pre-test and post-test result based on
criterion scoring used by researcher. It is shown in this table:
Table 4.4 Frequency Distribution of Students’ Critical Thinking
Ability Pre-Test and Post-Test Result Based on Criterion Scoring
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No Interval
Frequency Pre-Test
Frequency Post-test
Categories
1 75
– 100 3
11 Advance Thinker
2 50
– 75 10
20 Critical Thinker
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H.Ennis “Critical Thinking Assesment; Theory into Practice, the Ohio State University”. Vol. 32, No.3, Summer 1993, 180.
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H.Ennis “Critical Thinking Assesment; Theory into Practice, the Ohio State University”. Vol. 32, No.3, Summer 1993, 171
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Linda Elder – Richard Paul, “Critical Thinking Development: A Stage Theory” The
Critical Thinking Community, http:www.criticalthinking.orgpagescritical-thinking-
development-a-stage-theory483 , accessed on March 1
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3 25
– 50 15
5 Beginning
Thinker 4
– 25 12
4 Unreflective
Thinker From the result which is shown above, it shows
significant difference on students’ critical thinking ability between before and after critical reading strategies. It is
one line with a study which has been explained in previous study by Jinhong Yu’s study. According to her, those
critical reading strategies are proven effective on students’ critical thinking ability. In Jinhong’s study, besides critical
thinking ability, it is also explained that critical reading strategies have other effect which are good for reading
class. That is English reading improvement.
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The difference between this study and that previous study is;
this study meas ured the effectiveness of students’ critical
thinking ability using critical reading strategies. While in the previous study, the researcher analyzed what effects
which students have after using critical reading strategies.
3. The Improvement of Students’ Critical Thinking
